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After the deadly floods, Germans had to face another storm: Fake images and disinformation making the rounds in neighborhoods — and causing panic. DW's fact-checking team debunks the altered images and disinformation. Go to video
Ten percent of Ghanaians rely on fishing - but the stocks are dwindling. Competition and overfishing by international trawlers, as well as, harmful practices employed by local fishing folk have led to a strain on both the ecosystem and peoples’ livelihoods. The 77 Percent accompanied a group of fishermen on to the rocky waters.
Indian health workers are doing all they can to vaccinate remote communities, including Nomadic people in Indian-administered Kashmir. But the medical teams are having difficulties in persuading some that the COVID-19 vaccine could save their lives.
Domestic violence in Pakistan in focus after three women are killed in three weeks, ostensibly by their partners. Flood rescue work continues in central China and India's west. And the Indian health workers trekking the last mile to get COVID vaccines to hard-to-reach places in Kashmir.
From Germany to Canada to China, dramatic pictures of the severe impacts of extreme weather have been dominating the news in recent weeks. Is the climate crisis to blame?
As coronavirus restrictions in Europe have been rolled back, people have been seizing the chance to finally travel abroad. But with COVID-19 cases now rising worldwide, German authorities fear travelers are bringing back more than just souvenirs.
Tokyo Games are a financial disaster for Japan - India's Zomato soars to $12bn in market debut - Intel sales forecast implies rocky second half
Over 90 percent of the ocean is still unexplored. But we are polluting the sea before we even get to know it. Deep down, there are treasures to be discovered: an arsenal of potential medicines. Researchers are looking there for new antibiotics.
What do water fleas reveal about how well a body of water is doing? A scientist from Indonesia is studying the tiny creatures in Lake Constance and observing how they adapt to their environment – meaning also to human influence.
The Tomorrow Today question of the week comes from Brown Mbadiwe from Owerri, Nigeria.
Hydroelectric power plants can provide green energy, but often harm the fish that live in the water. Many of them die passing through the turbines. Now researchers are working on a robot fish that could save its real-life counterparts.
The crew aboard a research ship wants to find out how plastic waste threatens marine animals. Old fishing nets, for example, are dangerous for turtles. But microplastics also accumulate in animals and end up in our food chain.
One million plastic bottles are sold worldwide every minute. The vast majority of them are not recycled. So what happens to the packaging after we’ve finished a drink? And how can we change that?
The WHO estimates that ten million people will die of antibiotic-resistant diseases in 2050 – due to pathogens that can no longer be treated with drugs. New, as yet unknown antimicrobials could be a solution. One source for them could be in the ocean.
More than half of all adults in Spain are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, but hospital admissions are slowly rising all the same. As in many other European countries, mainly young, unvaccinated people are getting infected. DW's Jan-Philipp Scholz reports from the city of Valencia.
The price of gold has risen during the pandemic and illegal gold miners are getting greedy. Also: the return of the Mexican gray wolf and sex-selective abortions in Kyrgyzstan.
Bas Timmers originally wanted to be a fashion designer. But after his friends' father died of the cold while sleeping rough, he came up with an idea for a 'Sheltersuit' for homeless people and refugees – a cross between a coat and a sleeping bag.
